U+B19C "놜" Hangul Syllable Nwal Unicode Character
U+B19C "놜" Hangul Syllable Nwal is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n" (ㄴ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "l" (ㄹ), forming the single syllable "nwal." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into individual codepoints for efficient text processing and display. In practice, "놜" is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it illustrates the systematic nature of the Korean writing system, where syllables are built from left to right and top to bottom. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any text requiring this syllable can be accurately represented across digital platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B19C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwal |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "놔" U+B194 Hangul Syllable Nwa "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 놜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 놜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x86 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB19C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B19C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub19c |